The adjacent

419 pages

English language

Published Jan. 29, 2013

ISBN:
978-0-575-10536-2
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OCLC Number:
827950992

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4 stars (1 review)

Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The authorities think the terrorist attack and the death of Tarent's wife are somehow connected. A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. On his journey to the trenches he meets the visionary who believes that this will be the war to end all wars. In 1943, a woman pilot from Poland tells a young RAF technician of her escape from the Nazis, and her desperate need to return home. In the present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his …

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4 stars

The writing was compelling, the worlds painted so beautifully and the whole idea so grand that this was well on track for a five star rating. But the end, perhaps a little too cerebral for me, let it down some. Still, worth reading just for the prose and I’d certainly give Priest another go if a book of his came across my path.

Subjects

  • Englisch
  • Terrorism
  • Roman
  • Fiction